by Prof Michel Tournier (Author)
Displaying his characteristic penchant for the macabre, the tender and the comic, Michael Tournier presents the traditional Magi describing their personal odysseys to Bethlehem-and audaciously imagines a fourth, the eternal latecomer ' whose story of hardship and redemption is the most moving and instructive of all. Prince of Mangalore and son of an Indian maharajah, Taor has tasted an exquisite confection, rachat loukoum, and is so taken by the flavor that he sets out to recover the recipe. His quest takes him across Western Asia and finally lands him in Sodom, where he is imprisoned in a salt mine. There, this fourth wise man learns the recipe from a fellow prisoner, and learns of the existence and meaning of Jesus.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 264
Edition: Revised ed.
Publisher: JHUP
Published: 13 Aug 1997
ISBN 10: 0801857333
ISBN 13: 9780801857331
Book Overview: This may be more than a novel of high achievement, in fact; it may be the best work so far of a truly daring writer. - America